by Vorticon » Thu Jul 15, 2010 12:34 am
Actually TP 5 runs fine on the Jr, but some form of hard drive is needed. I have it installed on my parallel zip drive, but for some odd reason I still like the simplicity of TP 3 for small projects. For larger projects though, TP 5 is much better.
As for C, while I have done several projects with it, I just don't like it... Nowadays, I either program in Pascal or straight assembly (9900 CPU only) with the occasional BASIC (yes, you heard me right!) project mixed in, and all my programming is on vintage machines although I am now looking at Free Pascal under Linux. So when tsound ended up being nearly 12k, I was horrified given that I am used to writing complex programs in assembly in under 24K on the TI 99/4A! I guess this is the origin of the current bloat in software...